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Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: Horn on October 29, 2002, 04:10:38 PM

Here:

http://138pc222.sshunet.nl/Drivers/DirectX82.zip

will this help my old p3 500 w/TNT Ultra machine?

tia!

dh

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: Skuzzy on October 29, 2002, 04:37:53 PM

I find this very curious.  Microsoft ships this with one game of thiers, but has not made it available to the public.  Very disconcerting.
I wonder what the licensing is for that version?

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: JonBuf on October 29, 2002, 04:40:23 PM

27meg is pretty big for a release of directx isn't it, and if it's not been officially released then I think I'll let someone else download it first :p



edit: and isn't directx 9 the next version to be released by microsoft ? :confused:

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: Horn on October 29, 2002, 04:42:27 PM

Got it from here:

http://agw.warbirdsiii.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12447

To rave reviews--just don't know whether the older technology will be improved as well...

dh

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: WldThing on October 29, 2002, 05:00:06 PM

Here goes nothin :D

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: WldThing on October 29, 2002, 05:16:59 PM

Did it... Didnt do anything for me :(  

Good Luck.

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: Voss on October 29, 2002, 05:30:07 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Skuzzy
I find this very curious.  Microsoft ships this with one game of thiers, but has not made it available to the public.  Very disconcerting.
I wonder what the licensing is for that version?

Given Microsoft's dealings in the past, does anything surprise you anymore? I'm betting it's just an issue of departmental delay.

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: Udie on October 29, 2002, 05:41:40 PM

I think it was dx2.0 or something that taught me to let the world test out a new directx release for at least 2 months b4 I get it....

Title: Dx 8.2?
Post by: Ack-Ack on October 29, 2002, 08:33:55 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Skuzzy
I find this very curious.  Microsoft ships this with one game of thiers, but has not made it available to the public.  Very disconcerting.
I wonder what the licensing is for that version?

I think this is just basically DirectX8.1b patched to work with CFS3.  If you look at the DX files, most of them are the same as DX8.1b with a few new files (probably the patched ones) that pertain to DX Draw.

Question is, with DX9 release pushed back to the end of November, is it even worth installing this version?


ack-ack